25 February 2016

Managing Director of Iran Air Farhad Parvaresh said 80 – 85%
of the contracts for the delivery of Airbus A350 XWB to Iran will be financed
by the Europeans.

Source: Hamid Forootan

Speaking to reporters at the time of the landing of the
first A350 XWB at Mehrabad Airport, Parvaresh noted that based on the contract
which was signed, 16 A350-1000s will be delivered as of 2021 according to the
schedule.

Source: Hossein Esmaeli

He also said that in case the conditions for deliveries
(initially 16 A350-1000 aircraft planned) were not mature enough, they could be
substituted with A350-900 or other models.

Source: Hossein Esmaeli

Iran Air and Airbus signed an agreement for 118 aircraft
last month.

Source: Hossein Esmaeli

Parvaresh said that the deal is “the start of
re-establishing our civil aviation sector into the envy of the region”.

Based on the article “Iran Air chief: 85% of A350 Airbus
delivery contracts to be financed by Europeans” published in The Iran Project.

22 February 2016

Airbus plans to offer airlines an update by the Farnborough
Air Show in July on its potential plans to come out with a bigger variant of
the A350 wide-body jetliner so it can better challenge the order success of
Boeing’s enlarged 777X.

Source: Airbus

The aircraft, a longer version of the A350-1000 --itself
already a so-called stretch model-- would be offer more seats in 3-class
configuration than Boeing’s 777-9, Airbus’s chief salesman John Leahy said.

While A350-900 (325 seats) and A350-1000 (366 seats) is
sufficient to combat existing 777 variants and the upgraded 777-8, Airbus
doesn’t currently have a twin-aisle model to offer the capacity of Boeing’s
777-9, a maximum of 425 people.

Source: @RayanDkhilFLY

Airbus is studying whether there is a big enough market at
30 to 40 seats larger than the current A350-1000, Leahy said.

“We’re starting to conclude that perhaps there is such a
market and now we’re talking to key airlines about what we might be able to do
in that market but no final decision has been made,” Leahy said.

“We’ll certainly be able to give you an update at
Farnborough.”

Source: @azuan1880

Leahy said the new variant would have more seats than the
425 seats maximum capacity of the Boeing 777-9.

Leahy said that the Rolls-Royce Plc engines now offered for
the A350-1000 would be sufficient to power a larger variant, though would
likely need some thrust added.

Source: Airbus

“There will not be a brand new engine," Leahy said.

"We might increase the thrust of it, but it will be the
same engine technology if we were to do the airplane. We study a lot of things
of which some end up in the market and some don’t."

Based on the article “Airbus Targets Farnborough Show for
Update on Bigger A350-1000” published in Bloomberg.